A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...

|~||~||~|Emphysema owes its name to the ancient Greek word that means to fill with air or inflate. It’s ironic, perhaps, that patients with emphysema complain about the opposite problem — they can’t ...

Emphysema is not hereditary. It usually results from smoking or exposure to other harmful lung irritants. However, a rare genetic condition called alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) passed down in ...

Emphysema happens gradually as tobacco smoke or other pollutants damage the tiny air sacs in your lungs called alveoli. Normally, some 300 million alveoli help bring oxygen into your body and get rid ...

“Emphysema is usually a description of images — CT scan or X-ray — and is only one part of the disease of COPD,” says Uddalak Majumdar, MD, pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. COPD is ...

With emphysema, you can have symptoms like shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness. Your symptoms can ...

A protein generated as part of our body's immune response to intestinal worms could slow the progression of emphysema, according to a Rutgers study. The study appears in the journal Cell Reports.

What Are Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis? Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are both chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) -- long-term conditions that get in the way of airflow and make it ...